Tour Veluwezoom Landal Coldenhove, Velp, Loenen

KP 73 Bad Forests
The'Onzalige Bossen\\\', it stimulates your imagination of a vast wild forest where highway robbers are hiding. That is partly true, it is one of the oldest forest areas in the Veluwe, where in the past oaks were selectively felled for convenience wood or for the tanneries. Another explanation for the name, which is more common, is that'onzalig\\\' or'on-saelig\\\' is a corruption of shabby. That the poor soil would only be suitable for forestry and not for agriculture.
You will find these woods on the left side of the cycle path.
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Kp 66 Rozendaalsche Veld (until Kp17)
The Rozendaalsche Veld (also written as Rozendaalse Veld) is a heathland area on the Veluwe in the municipality of Rozendaal near Velp.
It is a fairly large and high-lying heath with quite a lot of relief and fairly large differences in height. Signaal Imbosch, the highest point of the Veluwe (110 metres), is located near the Rozendaal sands. These make the area very attractive for recreation. All in all, the area measures 542 ha. To the east and north it is so closely connected to the Veluwezoom National Park that it forms a landscape with the Rheder- and Worthrhederheide, the central heathland in this national park. To the west it connects to the Rozendaalse Bos.
The Rozendaalse Zand is located in the southwest. This medium-sized sand drift has been/will be stripped of approximately 17 hectares of forest from 2009 to allow the sand to actively drift again.
Another name for the area is the Velperhei. It used to be managed by the'heirs of the village of Velp\\\', an old marke organization that still exists and has rights and some influence on decisions regarding the management of the area. On February 5, 1920, the area was handed over to the municipality of Rheden under strict conditions by the'heirs of the village of Velp\\\'. In memory of this, there is still a memorial on the Pinkenbergseweg in Rozendaal in the form of a stone bench, exactly at the location where a real toboggan run was built at the time.
Since 1949, the Rozendaal field has been a prominent point, with a fire tower that was used by the fire brigade (the'Veluwse Bosbrandweer Comité\\\') until around 1978 to detect forest and heath fires. It was restored in 1989 on the initiative of a foundation set up especially for this purpose.
Kp 17
Stop 1: German Village - Teerose II
At first glance they are strange trapezoidal structures. What are those concrete blocks doing in the woods? As before during the walk, traces of the war can be found here. To expand the capacity of Teerose I, Teerose II was built near the highest point of the Veluwe'Signaal Imbosch\\\' (109m above NAP). The position was an exact copy of Terlet's. There were five towers and identical outbuildings including an evaluation building and residential barracks. This place is still called'German village\\\'. The concrete remains you see here formed the foundation for one of the towers. In addition to their work for the radio sentinel station, the German residents passed the time by building an entrance gate and furniture with wooden trunks from the forest. There was even a landscaped garden with shrubs and flower beds. Artist Eugène Terwindt made a work of art for this location with the text'A person cannot sink any lower\\\'. The mirror image of this work of art can be found in the floodplains near Dieren at the lowest point of the municipality of Rheden:'A person cannot rise higher\\\'.
Stop 2: Fire tower
This 34m high fire tower was used from 1949 to 1978 to signal fire on the moor or in the forest. A fireman was able to alert the local fire brigade via a telephone line that had been laid out. Alarm! Fire! The tower became superfluous after the arrival of reconnaissance planes. Most fire towers have disappeared from the Veluwe. But the Rozendaalse Veld Brandtoren Foundation saved this copy from demolition and had it restored. You can climb the fire tower until the first turn. On clear days, the view reaches to the west as far as Ede; in the north, Deventer appears on the horizon.
Continued route:
Rheder- and Worth-Rhederheide
The route passes around the Rheder- and Worth-Rhederheide. You can see it from here on the right. It is a rest area that is not accessible to humans, so that the animals can live undisturbed. A little further on you will come across a bench from which you have a good overview of the entire area. Here in the western part of the route you can sometimes hear the belling in an easterly wind.
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KP 32 Hessengat
The Hessengat is located at junction 32. The roads near Terlet were transport routes for international transport. The Hessengat - a water vortex nearby - suggests that the horses of the'Hessenwagen\\\' from Germany could drink water here. The cargo of these wagons included the famous smoked Westphalian hams, which were also popular in Holland.
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KP 28
Stop 1: Kop Vrijenbergerspreng
You are now cycling through the Hoeve Delle nature reserve. On the left side of the path you will see one of the two heads of the Vrijenbergerspreng below. The beginning, the source of the spreng, is called sprengkop. Most sprengen are fed by a number of sprung heads.
Sprengen are streams dug by people that mainly occur on the lateral moraine of the Veluwe. The water starts to flow at the place where the groundwater is tapped, the sprinkle head. The oldest springs in the Veluwe date back to the 16th century and were mainly used to power water mills, make paper, grind grain and laundries.
The rectangular shape of this spren is characteristic of the spren that were constructed in the nineteenth century to provide the Apeldoorns Canal with sufficient water. Sufficient water meant that shipping was possible on the canal. The hand-dug canal spreng was constructed in 1869 by Rijkswaterstaat.
Did you know that the precipitation that falls on the Veluwe sometimes takes hundreds of years to reach the sprengkop? The rainwater is filtered underground and stored in different layers of the earth.
On the right you see a grazing meadow where you have a chance to spot wildlife in the evening at sunset. Take a good look around you on the route through the forest, you will probably discover traces of wild boars. In the summer they fully enjoy the blueberries that grow in the forest and along the stream.
Stop 2: Field of Honor Loenen
Dutch war victims are buried at Ereveld Loenen. Men, women and children. Civilians and military personnel killed in various places and under various circumstances since May 9, 1940.
On October 18, 1949, HRH Princess Wilhelmina opened the cemetery where almost 4000 Dutch people are now buried. Reburials still take place here on a regular basis. Opening hours: daily from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Chapel and monument
This chapel contains an oak shrine with 42 commemorative books containing the names of approximately 130,000 Dutch war victims. A page is turned every day. To the left of the chapel is the monument'The Falling Man\\\' by the sculptor Cor van Kralingen. A wreath laying ceremony takes place every year on May 4.
Stop 3: Small Waterfall
You can hear the rushing water of the Kleine Waterfall. This waterfall has a drop of 6 meters. About 1.5 km further downstream you arrive at the impressive Great Waterfall: a popular playground for children in warm summer weather.
Did you know that the temperature of the water in the spreng remains around 8-10 °C all year round?
From the spreng head to the mouth of the Apeldoorns Canal, the Vrijenbergerspreng has a drop of more than 20 meters over a length of approximately 6 km. Stone weirs and waterfalls have been constructed in the stream to prevent the large differences in height from leading to too much erosion, and thus too much sand from washing into the canal. These break the flow rate of the water.
Stop 4: Big Waterfall
You now reach the highest waterfall in the Netherlands. The water here makes a drop of more than 15 meters! With the splashing and splashing water, this is a wonderful place to cool down on a hot summer day.
Further on you can see the water turning more and more red. The discoloration is caused by iron compounds in the groundwater. As soon as they react with the oxygen in the water, new iron compounds are created that give the water this red color as a red precipitate.
In the last part of the spreng, the vegetation becomes richer: ferns, yellow-flowering licorice, the white umbellifers of the common hogweed, real valerian and the orange berries of the mountain ash.
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KP 51
Stop 1: Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij
The railway line where you are now connects Apeldoorn with Dieren. The 32 km long route was opened in 1879 and passenger transport ended in 1947. Today the line is used as a tourist attraction. The Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij (VSM) maintains train services on this old railway line. Old-fashioned train sets, pulled by steam locomotives, mainly transport tourists. Between Apeldoorn and Dieren the train stops at five stations, including that of Loenen.
Partly due to the arrival of rail traffic, the Apeldoorns Canal never became a success. The Apeldoorn Canal was dug in 1825 by order of King Willem I for the economic development of Apeldoorn. The 52 km long canal connects the IJssel near Dieren to the IJssel near Hattem and was intended for the transport of goods by water.
It soon became apparent that the canal did not meet the requirements of the freighters, the lock and bridge fees did not cover the costs of maintenance and, with industrial development, shipping traffic was overtaken by rail traffic and later road traffic. In 1972, shipping traffic on the Apeldoorn Canal was halted.
Stop 2: Monding Vrijenbergerspreng
You now arrive at the mouth of the Vrijenbergerspreng in the Apeldoorns Canal, a small cultural-historical monument. With the associated locks, quays and lockkeeper's houses, the Apeldoorns Canal is of cultural-historical and landscape value. The tranquil landscape has a high experiential value: varied banks with reed borders, flowering plants and trees accompanying the banks through which you can see the sunlight shining beautifully on the water. Attractive to enjoy by bike, or from the water in a canoe or pedal boat.
The southern part of the Apeldoorns Canal is of great botanical value. Rare plant species occur here that are bound to relatively nutrient-poor and soft water. Around the mouth of the Vrijenbergerspreng you can see the beautiful water violet blooming.
To reduce the desiccation of the Veluwe, a special loading point has been built a little further on to transport water from the Apeldoorns Canal to the infiltration fens in the Hoeve Delle nature reserve. Vitens pumps up a maximum of 2 billion liters of water here for drinking water. You can view the drinking water ponds yourself!
The fens are located 2 km west of the Kleine Waterval.
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This route is self-compiled.